Jimmy Buffett

Jimmy Buffett - La Vie Dansante lyrics

La Vie Dansante

By: Jimmy Buffett, Michael Utley, Will Jennings

1984

[The Dancing Life]

They can come take it all away

Break your heart by the light of day

Drown your love in a distant bay

So lonely

See the ships heading for the rocks

See the time melting off of the clocks

There's a light shatters all the locks

And saves me

It saves me

That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante

On the night wind that takes me just where I want

That's all I want La Vie Dansante

Why don't you wander and follow La Vie Dansante

On the night wind that takes you just where you want

That's all you want La Vie Dansante

Miss the beat if you close your eyes

Every night wears a new disguise

And I live when a new surprise surrenders

Feel it all with a willing heart

Every stop is a place to start

If you know how to play the part with feeling

I play with feelings

That's why I wander and follow La Vie Dansante

On the night wind that takes me just where I want

That's all I want La Vie Dansante

Why don't you wander and follow La Vie Dansante

On the night wind that takes you just where you want

That's all you want La Vie Dansante

That's why we wander and follow La Vie Dansante

On the night wind that takes us just where we want

That's all we want La Vie Dansante

Why don't you wander and follow the dancing life

On the night wind that takes you just where you want

That's all you want La Vie Dansante

That's why we wander and follow La Vie Dansante

On the night wind that takes us just where we want

That's all we want La Vie Dansante

La la la la la la la la la la la la

La la la la la la la la la la la la

That's all we want...

ALBUM NOTES:

Back Cover -

"What goes around comes around" say wise men in bars. Any good artist feels compelled to change, if not doomed to change, and vary his art as much as he varies his life. Starting from the center, Buffett has shot off to a number of usual and unusual planets. Now in RIDDLES IN THE SAND we see him coming home not quite on A-1A, but with the same richness of feeling that informed much of his earlier work.

Years ago, down in Riviera Beach in southeast Texas, I saw some cowboys ride into town on horseback for a dinner of GULF shrimp AND oysters. If you were Superman you could have seen Key WESTERN off there in the distance. This album has a musical range expanding in an arc from Bob Wills to Bob Marley with the Gulf somehow always there: a low and high tidal range, sweet and piney like the Delta soil, Caribbean Islands white with coral dust, ladies as moist and sweet as a fresh broken conch. Rather than a return, Buffett is starting out from the center again, with a vast expansion both musically and emotionally. The music is a triumph for an American sound.

- Jim Harrison

Sleeve -

Acoustic Guitar - Jimmy Buffett

Electric Guitar - Reggie Young

Electric and Acoustic Guitar - Billy Walker Jr.

Bass - Emory Gordy

Keyboards and Synthesizer - Michael Utley

Keyboards and Synthesizer - John Jarvis

Drums - Matt Betton

Steel Drums - Robert Greenidge

Percussion - Samuel Clayton

Harmonica - Greg "Fingers" Taylor

Background Vocals - Jimmy Buffett, Mac McAnally, Wendy Waldman, Thom

Flora, Larry Lee, Samuel Clayton

Mac McAnally appears courtesy of Geffen Records

Produced and Recorded by: Jimmy Bowen for Lynwood Production, Michael Utley and Tony Brown

Recorded and mixed at Sound Stage Studio

1st Engineers: Ron Treat - Basic Tracks and Overdubs, Steve Tillisch - Mixdown

2dn Engineers: Mark Coddington and Vicki Hicks

Originally mastered at Masterfonics by Glenn Meadows

Mixed and mastered using the JVC Digital Audio Mastering System

Photography by Jim Shea

Drawings on the sleeve by: Savannah Jane Buffett, Maura and Melanie Lyons.

Art Direction by Jeff Adamoff

Very Special Thanks to:

Nashville - Johnny Dickinson, Charlie Allen, Will "Dr. Wheeeel" Jennings, "Dirt" Lanier, Jessie Noble, Abbe Demontbreun and to the Consistent Nutrition Experts Hap Towned, Luthers' Bar BQ, Mac's Cafe and the Ellistio Place Soda Shop

At the Gulf - Dan Sweet, Kenny Wall, Greer and Brooke Radcliff and "Rusty" the Wonder Horse

Out West - Howard Kaufman, Bobby Liberman and Nina Avramides-Berducat

"This album is dedicated with much love to Jane Slagsvol Buffett, who over the years, has been and remains, the ultimate riddle in the sand."

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